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Levashovo Memorial Cemetery

Levashovo, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russia

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(Russian: Левашовское мемориальное кладбище)

60°05′45″N 30°11′27″E



Commemorates the victims of political repression between 1937 and 1954: many were shot, others died in the city's prisons, all were buried here in unmarked graves. Archival evidence suggests that 19,540 bodies lie here, 8,000 of whom were shot or died during the Great Terror.

However, it is estimated that some 45,000 bodies are located here, many of which have no documents other than numbers. These people were murdered by the soviet - communist - bolshevik government, which tried to over rule and eliminate anyone who went against their plan or system.



The cemetery is located near the rail station at Levashovo, Saint Petersburg, in an empty area referred to in Russian as the Levashovskaya Pustosh (Russian: Левашовская пустошь), the Levashovo Wasteland.



Bodies dating back to the Terror were first found there in spring 1989 by a Memorial (society) exploration group led by V.T. Muravsky. The FSB, successor to the NKVD and KGB, finally handed the area over to the city council in 1990.







(Russian: Левашовское мемориальное кладбище)

60°05′45″N 30°11′27″E



Commemorates the victims of political repression between 1937 and 1954: many were shot, others died in the city's prisons, all were buried here in unmarked graves. Archival evidence suggests that 19,540 bodies lie here, 8,000 of whom were shot or died during the Great Terror.

However, it is estimated that some 45,000 bodies are located here, many of which have no documents other than numbers. These people were murdered by the soviet - communist - bolshevik government, which tried to over rule and eliminate anyone who went against their plan or system.



The cemetery is located near the rail station at Levashovo, Saint Petersburg, in an empty area referred to in Russian as the Levashovskaya Pustosh (Russian: Левашовская пустошь), the Levashovo Wasteland.



Bodies dating back to the Terror were first found there in spring 1989 by a Memorial (society) exploration group led by V.T. Muravsky. The FSB, successor to the NKVD and KGB, finally handed the area over to the city council in 1990.







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